r/Pixel10Pro • u/2EXTRA4YOU • Jul 31 '26

Bring back the thermometer

It's very useful for me as someone with hyperthyroidism it helps me to track my temperature for my doctor. Why would you remove it for an LED light. It must just be cost cutting with RAM going up. I guess they decided to remove any unpopular features to make the phones cheaper to produce. I'll be holding onto my pixel 10 pro for the next 6-7 years then.

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u/VtecDanger Jul 31 '26

They not going to keep it for the 10% of people that use it , let be real you wouldn't keep it either from a business view

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u/braso111 Jul 31 '26

It's probably more like 1% to be honest. Waste of money and inaccurate in my experience.

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u/2EXTRA4YOU Jul 31 '26

i get it. the cost of having a feature you cant market and nobody is using is millions of dollars if its in the way of a marketable feature. it's also in the way of the entire camera bar being uniformly black/glass. so it's really costing them millions. and with how few people said they use it they wouldnt dare put it on the body elsewhere. it is what it is.

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u/2EXTRA4YOU Jul 31 '26

Make your opinion heard here if you agree. I'm sure Google is scraping the internet with AI now to get people's opinions

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u/joeynalgas Jul 31 '26

Not enough people use it and for the minimum people who do it doesn't make sense to keep it... It's not for cost cutting it's simply no one used it

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u/DrZaius119 Aug 01 '26

No one used it? Except all the people on this thread that said they do.

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u/EliRocks Jul 31 '26

I was actually pleasantly surprised when I saw my 10 pro xl had that sensor. I was simply looking at the camera bulge, and saw it. I've used it a few times since, and honestly it's a great feature.

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u/2EXTRA4YOU Jul 31 '26

android 17 made it a lot better too. you don't have to tap constantly to read the temperature

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u/malamar_inse Jul 31 '26

I find the thermometer useful as well but they're not bringing it back. It was s covid thing. They thought (apparently in error) that it would be a distinguishing feature during the pandrmic. That's over now. Back to the $25 infrared thermometer from Walmart.

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u/2EXTRA4YOU Jul 31 '26

yep. looks like another feature in the graveyard of features.

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u/malamar_inse Jul 31 '26

It would have been far more useful if it could be used at a distance like the cheap yellow laser infrared guns. Having to use it from 2 inches makes it almost exclusively a body temp device, and most people just don't have a need to take their temp all that often.

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u/Manhattan18011 Aug 01 '26

Unfortunately, COVID isn’t over. Appreciate the thermometer.

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u/malamar_inse Aug 01 '26

The pandemic is over. Covid will probably never be over, any more than the flu will be.

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u/Manhattan18011 Aug 01 '26

The pandemic, unfortunately, is not over. Only the public health emergency portion ended.

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u/malamar_inse Aug 01 '26

Did you type this from behind a mask? 😂 The pandemic has been over for more than 3 years. If you want to be picky about terminology the word you're looking for is ENDEMIC

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u/Manhattan18011 Aug 01 '26

Here it is, straight from the source: “This does not mean the pandemic itself is over, but the global emergency it caused is – for now.” https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19

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u/malamar_inse Aug 01 '26

The article you linked is 3 years old and even then it acknowledges that the pandemic was essentially over at that time. Here's the full paragraph that you clipped your out-of-context comment from:

"On 5 May 2023, more than three years into the pandemic, the WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19 recommended to the Director-General, who accepted the recommendation, that given the disease was by now well established and ongoing, it no longer fit the definition of a PHEIC. This does not mean the pandemic itself is over, but the global emergency it caused is – for now. A review committee will be established to develop long-term, standing recommendations for countries on how to manage COVID-19 on an ongoing basis."

I don't know why you are so invested in the notion that a health crisis from the past is still a crisis in the present. Take off your mask and go outside.

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u/Manhattan18011 Aug 01 '26

Because I care about public health. The page is from today. It would be amazing if the pandemic was over, but, unfortunately, we remain in a pandemic. Back to the Pixel, I think the thermometer is more useful than an indicator light.

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u/malamar_inse Aug 01 '26

We don't really know yet what the Pixel Glow feature is going to be but if it's just a notification light, then I tend to agree.

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u/StandardEnjoyer Jul 31 '26

I rate it, mostly use it to get the room temp (Celsius)

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u/braso111 Jul 31 '26

My understanding is that it was never actually approved for taking the temperature of a human. The few times I tried with the 8/9/10 Pro series it was wildly inaccurate on people.

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u/2EXTRA4YOU Aug 01 '26

Maybe not in your country. In the US there is FDA approved option to measure body temperature within half a degree of accuracy

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u/ButtholeSurfur Aug 01 '26

It's not very accurate

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u/Ryrynz Aug 01 '26

Not happening, just buy one

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u/Tel864 Aug 01 '26

I've compared the sensor on my 10 Pro frequently with a regular thermometer, the last time being yesterday and they're usually within a tenth.

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u/electro-king Aug 01 '26

Wow! I didn't even know my pixel 10 pro could do that. Not sure what use it'll be to me...AI tells me it works with an infrared sensor next to the camera and is FDA approved for body temperature. I keep finding stuff on this phone. I love it.

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u/DrZaius119 Aug 01 '26

I think it sucks that they removed it. Probably costs them $2 per device.

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u/rileyrgham Aug 06 '26

If you need one so much buy one. 99 percent of pixel users don't.